NTB 2007 MUSIC DEPARTMENT PROGRAMS:
1. Sama-sama Sing Song!
Date & Time: 22 July, Sunday, 8pm
Venue: Lost Generation Space
A singer-songwriters showcase of the most beloved songwriters in town.
Musicians include: Ariff Akhir, Estrella, Jerome Kugan, Wolf, Tan Sei Hon, Imam, Paolo Delfino, ManMeng and Azmyl Yunor.
2. Video Screening: “Derek Bailey Playing for Friends on 5th Street” (2004)
Directed by Robert O’Haire, 51 minutes
Opening Screening: Pierce Wamecke’s Selected Videos
Opening Guest: Joe Kidd
Special Performances: The Abang Guard and Eric Chenaux.
Date & Time: 27 July, Friday, 8pm
Venue: SiCKL
Playing for Friends on 5th Street catches free-improv guitar legend Derek Bailey in an intimate concert for about 40 friends and fans on December 29, 2001. The single-camera footage, focused tightly on the guitarist, is presented with few edits, nicely augmented with various post-production effects: full screen & letterbox, color & warm sepia halftones & stop motion lend to the more-than-front-row intimacy of the video. Bailey is at his best during the 51-minute set, which includes his telling a story about working in a guitar shop in the 1960s (accompanying himself as he does in his much sought-after "chats") and a few moments of traditional playing on the vintage Epiphone hollow-body he bought on Staten Island.
Eric Chenaux experiments with song forms as a guitar player, composer and singer with an affection for balladeers. Chenaux has been improvising since about 1995. He has played improvised guitar with many people including: Han Bennink, Allison Cameron, Rob Clutton, Ryan Driver, Murray Favro, Nick Fraser, Mike Kane, Michael Moore, Kurt Newman, Stephen Parkinson, Pauline Oliveros and more.
3. Digital Tool Possibilities: MaxMSP
(Presented by SiCKL)
Instructor: Ali Aziz
Date: 29 July, Sunday
Time: 11am-1pm: set-up; 2pm-7pm: hands-on practice
Venue: Lost Generation Space
Requirements: Need registration and fill in a participation form. Maximum 15 persons. Please contact the instructor by email if interested.
FREE
MaxMSP is a real-time software/programming environment, which has a broad range of artistic application ranging from electronic music to media installations. It was first developed in the 80s at IRCAM (computer music institute in Paris) by Miller S Puckette and Max Mathews. It is popular software utilized by sound/visual/new media artists interested in real-time performance and interactive installation environments.
This is a beginner’s introductory MaxMSP workshop of how to operate the software, in hope that the workshop will spark participant’s interest and provide a new door in pursuing his or her creative endeavors using video and sound. Participants are expected to bring their own laptops to attend the workshop. For further details and technical requirements, please directly contact the instructor, Ali Aziz at the following email addresses:
me@triyae.com / triyae@hotmail.com / triyae@yahoo.com
4. Solo Video-Music Concert by Koji Tambata
Date & Time: 4 August, Saturday, 8:30pm
Venue: Central Market Annexe
Artist’s Talk and Sharing
“Random Thoughts On My Art-Video and Music”, by Koji Tambata
Date & Time: 2 August, Thursday, 8pm
Venue: SiCKL
Japanese video artist Koji Tambata will present a solo multidisciplinary event with video installations, a video screening, live music and live video (capturing and mixing). He will collaborate with several local musicians from SiCKL (Studio in Cheras, KL).
Tambata’s work concerns about process and execution, in other words, of what is happening at the moment. This is similar to the practice of meditation. As a music lover, Tambata finds that his philosophy and methodology in art making is very similar to the process of improvisation in music. Also interested in the physical reality of energy flow, he has found a way to apply this understanding in art and music. Tambata shoots live music performances, then re-arranges the images and adds new footage, visual/sound effects during editing, and finally creates a new audio-visual composition in video. He’ll then incorporate the pre-edited video in his live video-music performance. This is “MUSIC WORKS”, his long-term video-music project since 1996.
Koji Tambata is a performing video artist who has been working with video, music and performance since 1996. He has collaborated with musicians such as Tony Conrad, Steve Baczkowski, Jonathan Galove, Hylozoa, Eliav Brand, King Sunshine, the Knowmatic Tribe Sound System and more. He is currently living in Thailand.
Artist’s Talk and Sharing
“Random Thoughts On My Art-Video and Music”, by Koji Tambata
Tambata will discuss his journey as a performing video artist: from using the video camera as a medium of expression, to developing live video performances with music. And how the ancient Chinese philosophy Taoism in which he regards as “the first and the last philosophy”, has influenced his work and his perception of nature and the world.
“Albert Ayler has a song called Music is the healing force of the universe. I interpret that as the awareness of tension (energy blocked), in which, by letting it vibrates through its hardness and softness, will become a powerful growing force – an energy flow.” (Tambata)
5. Sound Riot
Date & Time: 5 August, Sunday, 3pm
Venue: Central Market Annexe
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